One anonymous NFL scout told SI's Peter King, "It would not surprise me when we make our board if we have nine quarterbacks with first-round grades. Not at all. Obviously, that depends on which underclassmen declare, and you hear things out there. But I could see it."

Nine first-round quality quarterbacks! The most ever taken in the first round is six. Two were taken in the top-32 last year.

Hundley isn't as polished as Mariota. He didn't play as well as many hoped this year, partly because of a bunch of injuries to his offensive line. But because of his size, speed, and raw talent, he could have still been one of the first QBs taken. According to Adam Schefter, two NFL teams had him as the best QB in the draft.

Georgia's Aaron Murray also suffered a season-ending knee injury, and will face that stigma in the lead up to the draft.

Teddy Bridgewater, who was always the consensus No. 1 offensive player in the draft, has been getting picked apart in the last few weeks. He had a good but not crazy-good season for a Louisville team that wasn't as strong as expected. He slipped from No. 2 to No. 4 in our expert consensus rankings in the last three months. One scout even called him a "second-round pick" last week.

Right now the top QBs in the 2014 Draft are Bridgewater, Johnny Manziel, Derek Carr, and Blake Bortles.

Drafting is an inexact science, and all of those guys could turn out to be great. But with the absence of Mariota and Hundley, the injury to Mettenberger, and the failure of Bridgewater to have a Heisman-type season, it's a step down from where things stood in October.